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obama was sworn in. the message -- they were all on the same team now. >> one message that i have and i think we all share is that we want you to succeed. whether we're a democrat or republican, we care deeply about this country. and to the extent that we can, we look forward to sharing our experiences with you. all of us who have served in this office understand that the office itself transcends the individual. and we wish you all the very best, and so does the country. >> this is an extraordinary gathering. all the gentlemen here understand both the pressures and possibilities of this office, and for me to have the opportunity to get advice, good counsel and fellowship with these individuals is extraordinary and i'm very grateful to all of them, but again, thank you, mr. president, for hosting us. gwen: and with that, we saw the latest iteration of what authors nancy gibbs and michael duffy call in their new book, "the presidents club." we have a reporters club here tonight, folks who have covered four
obama was sworn in. the message -- they were all on the same team now. >> one message that i have and i think we all share is that we want you to succeed. whether we're a democrat or republican, we care deeply about this country. and to the extent that we can, we look forward to sharing our experiences with you. all of us who have served in this office understand that the office itself transcends the individual. and we wish you all the very best, and so does the country. >> this is...
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obama says he will have more flexibility after the election this year. republicans were quick to seize on the flexibility comment. >> this is a president who is telling us one thing and doing something else and is planning on doing something even more frightening. >> governor romney went on to characterize russia as america's number-one geopolitical rival. a charge that threw re row joinedder from medvedev that, this is 2012, not the 1970s, the height of the cold war. congressional republicans are calling for a "urgent explanation" of mr. obama's comment to mr. medvedev. here's the exchange again. after my election i have more flexibility. >> question, mr. obama's -- or reset of u.s.-russian relations is his foreign policy priority. how much further is he likely to take that, that reset, in a second term? >> this is a gaff of the really the first order, john. he has confirmed the suspicions of every conservative and traditionalist and nee con in america that after his election, all this nonsense i've been supporting in my first term goes out the window a
obama says he will have more flexibility after the election this year. republicans were quick to seize on the flexibility comment. >> this is a president who is telling us one thing and doing something else and is planning on doing something even more frightening. >> governor romney went on to characterize russia as america's number-one geopolitical rival. a charge that threw re row joinedder from medvedev that, this is 2012, not the 1970s, the height of the cold war. congressional...
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and were able to do something in response to the obama election of 2008. tavis: since you mentioned the present, the first debate between mr. obama and mr. romney is behind us. the president is on his own. just weeks ago at the democratic convention he had a nice assist from former president bill clinton. bill clinton has weighed in on this issue. again, it is one thing for you and me to talk about. when bill clinton says something, people start to pay attention. he has weighed in on this and said something i want you to unpack. he has argued that the republicans what the electorate in 2012 to look like the 2010 electorate and not like the 2008 electorate. explain what he meant by thtat. >> if you look at the 2008 electorate, it was a the per se electric, a denver electorate. and it signaled a democrat change in the country and what the electorate will look like going forward in 2016 and beyond. that is why i called the coalition of the ascendant. if you look at 2010, it was an electorate that was older and more conservative. that is why republicans did so
and were able to do something in response to the obama election of 2008. tavis: since you mentioned the present, the first debate between mr. obama and mr. romney is behind us. the president is on his own. just weeks ago at the democratic convention he had a nice assist from former president bill clinton. bill clinton has weighed in on this issue. again, it is one thing for you and me to talk about. when bill clinton says something, people start to pay attention. he has weighed in on this and...
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there will be tweaks to obamaed care. obama himself proposed some even during the election season. and there's another huge health care issue looming out there which is are we really going to find a way to get health care costs under control, which we started to do with obamacare but didn't finish. >> there is another issue with obamaed care that it has to be implemented by the states and governors have said they will resist implementing part of it. and poll show the public does not agree with that law so it is a battle that will continue with the relationship between the president and the states. there is another issue that affects all these things that we haven't talked about so much which is president obama now distribute have to think about reelection. >> ifill: that was my next question. >> all he has to think about is his legacy, and so far you can argue he accomplished quite a bit, whether you like it or not, health care, stimulus plan, dodd-frank-- there's all kinds of stuff. and now he wants to, i think, focus on a deficit plan and immigration reform. >> ifill: but isn't t
there will be tweaks to obamaed care. obama himself proposed some even during the election season. and there's another huge health care issue looming out there which is are we really going to find a way to get health care costs under control, which we started to do with obamacare but didn't finish. >> there is another issue with obamaed care that it has to be implemented by the states and governors have said they will resist implementing part of it. and poll show the public does not agree...
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but with president obama's re- election, coal companies sold off. arch coal was down 12.5%. alpha natural resources dropped 12.2%. peabody energy shed 9.6%. the industry may see more clean air regulations in president obama's second term, hurting demand. healthcare was also in focus today after the election. and among the winners: hospital stocks. with health care reform moving forward, hospitals could benefit from an increase in insured patients. h.c.a. popped 9.4%. health management associates gained 7.3%. community health rose 6%. beyond the election reaction, apple continued losing ground. a key asian supplier of the iphone 5 said production of the device was difficult due to quality standards. the supplier said it is shipping far fewer iphones than apple wants. it has been a fast fall for apple stock. six weeks ago it was above $700 at a record high. after dropping 3.8% today, the stock closed at $558. it's now in a bear market, down more than 20% from its september high. a key apple partner, a.t.&t. shed 3.3%. the company announced it will spend more money, about $22 b
but with president obama's re- election, coal companies sold off. arch coal was down 12.5%. alpha natural resources dropped 12.2%. peabody energy shed 9.6%. the industry may see more clean air regulations in president obama's second term, hurting demand. healthcare was also in focus today after the election. and among the winners: hospital stocks. with health care reform moving forward, hospitals could benefit from an increase in insured patients. h.c.a. popped 9.4%. health management...
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i tell the story in "confront a meeting that took place between president bush and president-elect obama days before the inauguration and president bush said there are two programs you're going to want to save out here, one of them is drones, particularly over pakistan, and the second one is called olympic games, and it's what's described in the book, it's not the olympic games of london next month, but, instead, the code name for a very broad cyber war against started during the bush administration. the new president comes in, he looks at these and he doubles and then triples down on them. and then why? because i think he rightly sensed that after 11 years at war, the country was pretty tired of sending 100,000 troops and spending a trillion dollars and doing wars of occupation where the occupation turns into resentment. he needed some kind of high-tech, low-casualty way to try to accomplish the same mission, and in the iran case, he needed a way to keep the israelis from doing a military attack. >> what is, then, the obama doctrine, coming out of this evolution he had that started mayb
i tell the story in "confront a meeting that took place between president bush and president-elect obama days before the inauguration and president bush said there are two programs you're going to want to save out here, one of them is drones, particularly over pakistan, and the second one is called olympic games, and it's what's described in the book, it's not the olympic games of london next month, but, instead, the code name for a very broad cyber war against started during the bush...
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it will be easier if obama is re-elected. boehner returns as speaker and harry reid returns as the senate leader because they've been in this before. i think president obama would call john boehner. and he would tweak his plan for a concession with republicans. if obama is re-elected, republicans for a brief moment would say, we've got to do a little business with him and then they will move on. gwen: we have to touch on the biggest story of the week which is the super storm sandy. and i wonder in the end -- i know in the beginning i thought to myself, well, in -- only blue states were affected. but i wonder what we saw with christie and bloomberg, whether that at the end didn't reap down to the incumbent? >> probably in a small way. small things can have potentially big consequences. >> you think of the opposite of that if they had anything wrong go wrong and the president was seen as not performing as well as he seems to be that would have been a problem. >> and it really threw the romney campaign too. they couldn't quite f
it will be easier if obama is re-elected. boehner returns as speaker and harry reid returns as the senate leader because they've been in this before. i think president obama would call john boehner. and he would tweak his plan for a concession with republicans. if obama is re-elected, republicans for a brief moment would say, we've got to do a little business with him and then they will move on. gwen: we have to touch on the biggest story of the week which is the super storm sandy. and i wonder...
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i'm focused on this job and focused on getting president obama elected this november. >> we have to talk a minute about jobs and immigration. both are very important. i assume they will be spoken about and talked about at this convention. what about the new registration of young people who hope to go on and get permanent citizenship in the country. who came here as young people that was just launched this week. what do you think is the future of that action by president obama? >> as you know, i just left a tenure of a year of the conference of mayors around the country. for maybe the last six or seven years, we unanimously, democrat and republican, got behind comprehensive immigration reform. unanimously supported the dream act. i stand with the president in the deferred action for the dreamers. what i said and i believe very strongly the vast majority of americans agree is that if we get these dreamers, 1.5 million young people who lived here most of their lives and know no other countries, if we take them out of the dark and into the light, it will add $1.5 trillion to the u.s. economy
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barack obama will be changed by his election as well the question is whether for good or if ill? when you get re-elected, you come back. you've been reaffirmed. the public loves you even by three points an you start dreaming big. you don't have to worry about the polls. it's clear obama wants to go in that direction. he's talking about this big -- doing a fiscal solution whether now or later some time this year. he's talking about immigration reform. has another set of agenda items. let's think about this for the state of the union. you can hear in his voice some different things already. he's drawing firmer red lines. in public, even tonight when he talked, there's a little more steel, a little more firmness than what he said. zpwoin that because he has this mandate he talks about. he said his mandate wasn't his mandate. it was the american people. he also said in the last few days that he didn't want to surrender to the status quo. does he have the ump to follow that? >> you can see he has more leverage. where it starts and stops, i don't think they know yet. he's reading about
barack obama will be changed by his election as well the question is whether for good or if ill? when you get re-elected, you come back. you've been reaffirmed. the public loves you even by three points an you start dreaming big. you don't have to worry about the polls. it's clear obama wants to go in that direction. he's talking about this big -- doing a fiscal solution whether now or later some time this year. he's talking about immigration reform. has another set of agenda items. let's think...
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a key state for president obama's re-election. madam woman, delegates, i accept your nomination. >> belva: the president asks for four more years to finish what he started. californians played a major role. >> our next speaker will place before you that nomination. >> belva: plus, a one on one conversation with california attorney general kamala harris. >> i'm so proud as a daughter of california to represent california on issues of what we should get in the foreclosure crisis and technology and so many other issues. >> belva: coming up next. >> belva: hello. i'm belva davis. welcome to this special edition of "this week in northern california." as we continue our convention coverage, things are winding down here in charlotte, democrats gathered to make their case to reelect president obama. throughout the week, i heard from many california delegates about what a second baobama ter would mean to them and the country. >> america, you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyon
a key state for president obama's re-election. madam woman, delegates, i accept your nomination. >> belva: the president asks for four more years to finish what he started. californians played a major role. >> our next speaker will place before you that nomination. >> belva: plus, a one on one conversation with california attorney general kamala harris. >> i'm so proud as a daughter of california to represent california on issues of what we should get in the foreclosure...
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. >> rose: so then in 2008 you had an election in which barack obama was elected. barack obama elected with the support of the teachers union. >> uh-huh. >> rose: but he also indicated that he had some questions about that. and then he appoint arnie duncan to be his secretary of education. and then they began to enunciate their own education policies. you seem to be-- have come to very much be in opposition to those policies and the road to the top. >> right. well, race to the top -- >> rose: race to the top. >> race to the top, to me, is just an extension of no child left behind. i came -- >> rose: in that? >> i came to be very critical of no child left behind because it really is distorting the priorities of the school. it has testing, testing, testing. the testing has gotten totally out of control in this country, high-stakes testing where reading and math is the only thing that counts because that's all that's tested. whether it's the arts, foreign languages, history, civics-- those things that don't couldn't, just reading and math. and there are schools spendi
. >> rose: so then in 2008 you had an election in which barack obama was elected. barack obama elected with the support of the teachers union. >> uh-huh. >> rose: but he also indicated that he had some questions about that. and then he appoint arnie duncan to be his secretary of education. and then they began to enunciate their own education policies. you seem to be-- have come to very much be in opposition to those policies and the road to the top. >> right. well, race...
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wasn't that what the obama election was all about? it was this -- >> but it took the conservatives-- >> incredible -- >> 40 years. >> well -- >> from barry goldwater forward, jill. >> we don't have that time. i think that dr. martin luther king said it the best. he said that when you have an emergency sometimes you have to ignore the red lights, be the ambulance drivers and drive through the red light. and that's what time it is now in america. and we've got to stop saying that something is not possible because is it possible. >> why is it possible, what do you mean? >> there's always a beginning. >> are we at some tipping point? >> yes, we definitely are at a tipping point. again, speaking to the amount of children that are going hungry every day in this country, the eight million families that have lost their homes to foreclosure -- my nieces are african american and they lived in their home for 20 years, a little house on the corner of 38th and 10th street in minneapolis. now today, you know, my nieces are living in my mother's lit
wasn't that what the obama election was all about? it was this -- >> but it took the conservatives-- >> incredible -- >> 40 years. >> well -- >> from barry goldwater forward, jill. >> we don't have that time. i think that dr. martin luther king said it the best. he said that when you have an emergency sometimes you have to ignore the red lights, be the ambulance drivers and drive through the red light. and that's what time it is now in america. and we've got...
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bibii answer, electability, in a match-up with sitting president barack obama it's even steven. obama, 48%. romney, 48%. so says gallop. that's a leap ahead this to coming november. >> i do. thanks for explaining it, though. >> surprised bithat? >> yes. this is the thing with romney, there's a resistance to him among conservatives, and so far he is only won in the states where he's basically a favorite son like new hampshire, or where he has made the rubble bounce with a nuclear negative attacks against the opponents. and he did not do that against santorum in these states. i think the outcome here makes a broker convention much more of a possibility, if santorum stays strong in the midwest. if gingrich retains some strength in the south, you could see mitt squeezed below 50% of the delegates, which one would make it likelier that santorum is vice presidential nominee and likelier although still a long shot you would get jeb bush at a convention. >> how did you like romney's salute to santorum? >> i think it was -- >> polite? >> yes, it was polite. it was gracious. >> smooth? >>
bibii answer, electability, in a match-up with sitting president barack obama it's even steven. obama, 48%. romney, 48%. so says gallop. that's a leap ahead this to coming november. >> i do. thanks for explaining it, though. >> surprised bithat? >> yes. this is the thing with romney, there's a resistance to him among conservatives, and so far he is only won in the states where he's basically a favorite son like new hampshire, or where he has made the rubble bounce with a...
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a moment of great triumph. >> important for the united states was elect barack obama. >> charlie:how would you define the relationship other than they need each other. >> i think they have genuine respect for each other. they talk more than you think. i think that was a process that built up after what was a contentious set of primaries. but i think from the moment that president obama got into office, president clinton really tried to do his best to support him when they reached out he always helped. >> charlie:that's not necessarily the story you hear, john. people say that the president has said -- former president he got more phone calls from george bush than he did from barack obama in the first year or 2. >> i think if you asked him that question today he would say they have a very serious, respectful relationship and they talk and they. >> charlie:but the point is what people around him say and people who know his thoughts said. >> a lot of people like to trade in that kind of gossip. but i know the reality. the reality is, you know, barack obama picked hillary clinton to be s
a moment of great triumph. >> important for the united states was elect barack obama. >> charlie:how would you define the relationship other than they need each other. >> i think they have genuine respect for each other. they talk more than you think. i think that was a process that built up after what was a contentious set of primaries. but i think from the moment that president obama got into office, president clinton really tried to do his best to support him when they...
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. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in a time of scarce resources. >> the fight now is a much more serious and brutal fight over basically sxhix and how do you cut up a smaller and smaller part? >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank
. >> warner: kwame holman reports on a key component of president obama's re-election strategy highlighting the political gridlock in washington. >> president obama says this 112th congress-- as divided and partisan as it is-- should work with him on behalf of the american people. >> brown: ray suarez looks at today's jobs problem and the future role of manufacturing. >> warner: and, we have a conversation with veteran reporter tom edsall about the political landscape in...
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who vote -- on people who voted for obama last time. >> are you going to be voting this election? >> yes. >> i'm a volunteer with president obama's re-election campaign. >> others on the list get a phone call. tonight's session is aimed at women voters. their opponents say they're working just as hard and despite the polls there's everything to play for. >> our job is to knock on every door, call every person we possibly can, deliver every last piece of mail and the campaign's job is to close the deal, sell that last voter on that inspirational, aspirational message of where governor romney wants to take the country. >> when the rally is over the real work begins for people fighting the street-by-street battle to win this bellwether state. >> well, one thing we hope is certain, the first television debate between the two won't be as heated as the now infamous on-screen battle in russia last year. billionaire newspaper owner, alexander, lashed out at a fellow businessman during a live debate and is now being charged with hule beganism. but he says -- hull beganism. but he says it's
who vote -- on people who voted for obama last time. >> are you going to be voting this election? >> yes. >> i'm a volunteer with president obama's re-election campaign. >> others on the list get a phone call. tonight's session is aimed at women voters. their opponents say they're working just as hard and despite the polls there's everything to play for. >> our job is to knock on every door, call every person we possibly can, deliver every last piece of mail and...
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i think that we did a really good thing when we elected barack obama. i read his books, they read his books. he is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. he's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. the things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and i think this is morgan freeman's personal thought we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me. tavis: on that note, we'll stop the conversation for tonight. morgan freeman has not one but two projects coming out one big budget, one not so big. we'll talk more about both those projects and so much more tomorrow night. a life this well-lived makes it difficult to squeeze conversation into 30 minutes, but we'll continue with this tomorrow night. until then, keep the faith. >> will with the woman who captures your heart be like? >> she would have your way of walking and talking. >> how do i do that? >> it is sunny outside. just a light rainfall. you
i think that we did a really good thing when we elected barack obama. i read his books, they read his books. he is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. he's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. the things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and i think this is morgan freeman's personal thought we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the...
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if you go across the country, and they run the bill clinton ads making a case for obama is re-election, 16,000 times in the swing states. there are advertisements out there that show bill clinton and president obama as if they were running mates. that is really great for his ego. he gets to see clintonism. what he brought into the world. his rightful place, barack obama ran as an antidote to clinton. that is too much triangulation, to incremental. i'm going to be post partisan and transcendent and visionary. now he is not running as an antidote, he is running as the inheritor. i am the one to carry the clinton creek forward. he gets back and he also gets with that, the restoration. that can't help but help hillary clinton if she decides to run in 2016 which everyone around her think she is going to do. at one me to do obama? -- want me to do obama? he gets the most widely respected and almost neutral economic orbiter, the highest approval rating, 69% who is taken and associated with this period of peace. he can talk owls down from the trees. the best spokesman in the history of the wor
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the last four presidents in a row, you know, bill clinton, george bush, barack obama, were all elected on this premise washington was broken and i'm going to be this president who can bring the two sides together and bridge the differences and i think now we've reached the point where we say no, washington is broken and somebody has to win this argument. gwen: the argument, at least when it comes to the voting booth is driven by enthusiasm or lack thereof. so assuming that part of what mid-romney did this week was selling himself to other republicans who were concerned for various free-floating reasons about thinks warmth, his ability, his mormonism or whatever, so does barack obama. four years ago there was a coast of excitement that surrounded his election. so who has the bigger enthusiasm gap? >> i think that is the central question. one of the things that i was thinking when i was in the hall last night writing my story, watching governor romney speak, the fact he was even sort of being accepted by this republican party was pretty extraordinary. because he -- gwen: the words tea pa
the last four presidents in a row, you know, bill clinton, george bush, barack obama, were all elected on this premise washington was broken and i'm going to be this president who can bring the two sides together and bridge the differences and i think now we've reached the point where we say no, washington is broken and somebody has to win this argument. gwen: the argument, at least when it comes to the voting booth is driven by enthusiasm or lack thereof. so assuming that part of what...
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the last three people we elected fit that bill and that is again a big advantage for barack obama that he can use this stage to remind people of. >> rose: this is clinton, bush and obama, the last three people elected. >> those guys were all more charismatic and filled-- gave the country a sense of possibility more than governor romney for all of hits strengths has been able to do so far. and the convention i think was his big chance to do that. and i don't think he reached that part of. >> rose: is it too late if he didn't reach it then? >> i think it's too late to do it in a way that-- that allowed him to equalize things on that. can still win without it but i think he had a chance to make it more equal, to come across as a more magical figure. i think de to some extent but my sense is not quite enough. >> rose: you are saying there is something, narrative is one thing and we all talked about that in 2008 and the absence of narrative in 2012. there is something abou about-- there's something in the air about a campaign that makes you think it's full of something beyond policy. >> poe
the last three people we elected fit that bill and that is again a big advantage for barack obama that he can use this stage to remind people of. >> rose: this is clinton, bush and obama, the last three people elected. >> those guys were all more charismatic and filled-- gave the country a sense of possibility more than governor romney for all of hits strengths has been able to do so far. and the convention i think was his big chance to do that. and i don't think he reached that...
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is elected. would you still these-- sell these purely because of politics? >> no, i think some stocks doing very well coal stocks will go back into a bear market, and online education and stuff like that. >> tom: all right. we last spoke with you in the springtime back on april 27, you had two picks back then. corning and methanex. both of those stocks are down. this is just the stock price movement. it does not include dividends, which would reduce these loss. do you still like these two stocks? >> well, i thought we have hit our stops on both of them, and corning is of course, linked with the iphone and what's happening with apexpel that looks like it's top out. we sold out of that. and as far as methanex, same thing, i think the industrial chemical market is steady but doesn't seem to be generating much excitement. >> tom: do you own the other two we mentioned earlier? >> oh, yes. i own main street and enterprise capital, both of those, enterprise partners russia both in my portfolio. >> tom:
is elected. would you still these-- sell these purely because of politics? >> no, i think some stocks doing very well coal stocks will go back into a bear market, and online education and stuff like that. >> tom: all right. we last spoke with you in the springtime back on april 27, you had two picks back then. corning and methanex. both of those stocks are down. this is just the stock price movement. it does not include dividends, which would reduce these loss. do you still like...
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so obama for america, the digital group that was created to help get president obama elected to a second term has sent out an e-mail with graphics to its supporters on millions of people oner, the mail list urging them to get involved on the president's proposals and to share some of this information with their friends. >> brown: we're taking a look at that now. so that's, lauren, part of this -- this is what you're talking about, the permanent campaign. >> it just never stops. they're saying share this with your friends. make a youtube video, post it on your facebook and your e-mail. the question really comes down to will this be as effective as these push letters were during the campaign? during the campaign it's "vote." very simple, you have to go and vote. here it's okay now you have to get involved in this really complicated issue called the fiscal cliff or the austerity movement. >> brown: a little harder than-to-explain than just street yes or no. >> and when you get into the back-and-forth of negotiating with congress and there will be different proposals, how many americans woul
so obama for america, the digital group that was created to help get president obama elected to a second term has sent out an e-mail with graphics to its supporters on millions of people oner, the mail list urging them to get involved on the president's proposals and to share some of this information with their friends. >> brown: we're taking a look at that now. so that's, lauren, part of this -- this is what you're talking about, the permanent campaign. >> it just never stops....
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president obama's re-election campaign reversed its stance against super pacs late yesterday, encouraging contributors to donate money to a group priorities usa action run by former administration staffers. with so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and democrats unilaterally disarm, wrote obama campaign manager jim massena in a blog post. >> it's time to put strict limits. >> woodruff: in his 2010 state of the union address president obama had criticized the supreme court ruling wiping away limits on corporate and labor union giving. the shift by the obama team comes as super pacs backing republican candidates and causes have seized an early financial advantage. groups supporting republican presidential candidates had raised more than 34 million dollars combined by the end of last year. another conservative super pac, american cross roads, has hauled in more than $18 million. by contrast, the pro obama pac has brought in less than $5 million. but the president's only campaign has rec
president obama's re-election campaign reversed its stance against super pacs late yesterday, encouraging contributors to donate money to a group priorities usa action run by former administration staffers. with so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and democrats unilaterally disarm, wrote obama campaign manager jim massena in a blog post. >> it's time to put strict limits. >>...
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jack welch stirred up controversy with this comment on twitter, accusing president obama's re-election campaign of essentially manipulating the report. - quote - unbelievable jobs numbers...these chicago guys will do anything..-end quote. the bureau of labor statistics is where the data comes from each month. it is a non-partisan government agency. meantime, the government red ink kept piling up in the latest fiscal year. the federal government spent $1.1 trillion dollars more than it brought in according to the congressional budget office. that's the fourth straight year of trillion dollar plus deficits, but down from a year earlier. as for consumer i.o.u.'s, consumer credit grew at its fastest pace in three months.. expanding more than 8 percent in july.. to 2-point-7 trillion dollars. over on wall street, it was a mixed day. the dow gained 35...the nasdaq lost 13...the s&p is down a fraction. for the week.. the dow gained 1.3 percent. the nasdaq was up 6-tenths of a percent. the s- and-p added 1.4 percent this week. >> susie: joining us now with more anaysis on that jobs report... m
jack welch stirred up controversy with this comment on twitter, accusing president obama's re-election campaign of essentially manipulating the report. - quote - unbelievable jobs numbers...these chicago guys will do anything..-end quote. the bureau of labor statistics is where the data comes from each month. it is a non-partisan government agency. meantime, the government red ink kept piling up in the latest fiscal year. the federal government spent $1.1 trillion dollars more than it brought...
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you see it exemplified by obama and christie today. this election is in a dead heat. polls give obama a slight edge. some of the other states are close. nobody knows what will happen. what we do know is that romney had a little bit of momentum. he was closing gaps, then everything stopped and the election was put on hold. president obama, you can feel the momentum on his side right now. we will have to see how the election plays out. sandy, beyond being a natural disaster, will always be part of the american electoral history. >> sandy has blunted some of the more bitter partisanship. now. we have six days left until the elections. will we hear a different town when the present its back on the campaign trail? >> slightly different. the president will want to stay optimistic, not suddenly descend into taken some cheap shots or one liners. he is now playing commander in chief of an ongoing crisis. remember, this is not about a day when a storm hits. this will go on for weeks and months. i think you will have an optimistic tone for the president. mitt romney will be goin
you see it exemplified by obama and christie today. this election is in a dead heat. polls give obama a slight edge. some of the other states are close. nobody knows what will happen. what we do know is that romney had a little bit of momentum. he was closing gaps, then everything stopped and the election was put on hold. president obama, you can feel the momentum on his side right now. we will have to see how the election plays out. sandy, beyond being a natural disaster, will always be part...
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is for obama to get reelected and then to be pushed by cresson's -- by progresses. fighting for union rights, fighting on behalf of the disenfranchised, and i think that movement, as it appears today in the form of community organizing, like the alliance of californians for community empowerment, and the national people's action, if they get a second wind, in some part because the occupy wall street movement helped to change the country -- people are talking about the incredible power of wall street and the right wing of billionaires, -- right winged billionaires -- the mood of the country is much different. the polls show that even republicans think that big corporations and wall street have too much power, so there is a movement under the surface that is going to explode and make a big difference. tavis: everything you just said is predicated on the notion or the belief that those persons who care about social-justice issues are going to activate themselves, that they are going to use the agency that they have, that they are going to, to put it another way, are go
is for obama to get reelected and then to be pushed by cresson's -- by progresses. fighting for union rights, fighting on behalf of the disenfranchised, and i think that movement, as it appears today in the form of community organizing, like the alliance of californians for community empowerment, and the national people's action, if they get a second wind, in some part because the occupy wall street movement helped to change the country -- people are talking about the incredible power of wall...
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so if obama gets elected they stay in. if romeny gets elected which he won't then he can't necessarily change it so let's just build that those tax cuts are gonna expire at the end of the year period. the one thing that i can tell you that is very troublesome to me as i look at prices, as i look across as i look at hog prices priced for next summer, i look at cattle prices, i look at grain prices and that is that why is it that we ignore the food and energy component of cpi? so, i could be ben bernanke's speech writer because he says the same thing every time he goes in front of the senate is we don't see any particular problem with inflation. really, we don't corn prices just nearly double in three months. so, how is it there is no inflation? >> reporter: do you get any sense that the ethanol mandate is going to change under either administration under obama or if romney would get elected? >> well is sure seems like the word ethanol has turned into a pejorative and it's not exactly the most positive topic. i just don't kn
so if obama gets elected they stay in. if romeny gets elected which he won't then he can't necessarily change it so let's just build that those tax cuts are gonna expire at the end of the year period. the one thing that i can tell you that is very troublesome to me as i look at prices, as i look across as i look at hog prices priced for next summer, i look at cattle prices, i look at grain prices and that is that why is it that we ignore the food and energy component of cpi? so, i could be ben...
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when president obama was elected, he had made a speech where he talked about america is part of the world, and he went to istanbul and cairo in his first year and talked about independence and the need to work together, and he was punished by the media and his own party, and the result is he talks mainly about america, we are number one, god bless america, and i do one god to bless america, but i want them to bless the whole world. the focus on the american exhibition where, first of all, every nation thinks it is exceptional. in switzerland, they talk about it, and in france, they talk about it that the french think similarly. and this does not mean that we are exceptional in the sense that we can solve problems by ourselves, that we can fix the things the way we did 100 years ago. thinking about immigration, there is nothing we can do. we cannot do that one nation at a time. even if we suddenly had all of the alternative energy and if we got off the petroleum teet and started using geothermal energy, 80% to 85% of the emissions come from other countries. we do these things together in t
when president obama was elected, he had made a speech where he talked about america is part of the world, and he went to istanbul and cairo in his first year and talked about independence and the need to work together, and he was punished by the media and his own party, and the result is he talks mainly about america, we are number one, god bless america, and i do one god to bless america, but i want them to bless the whole world. the focus on the american exhibition where, first of all, every...
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was electable because he was not too black... >> obama lying to the people, deceiving the people... the election of obama will be a giant step backward in race relations... >> narrator: and that summer, anger only grew. >> that he was more carlton banks than suge knight... >> narrator: over health care reform... >> rammed it down america's throat... >> narrator: ...the economy, the bank bailouts, and the president himself. >> if you call half the country racist, what's that going to do for your fundraising? >> this was all about barack obama himself. >> i thought he was probably born in this country. now i have a much bigger doubt... >> he came up so quickly as a candidate that people did not think that they had a time to fully vet him or find out who he was. there was all this chatter on the side, "who is barack obama?" >> this president has a deep- seated hatred for white people or white culture... >> the country is more polarized than ever. obama just accentuates that instead of bringing it together. >> one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history of...
was electable because he was not too black... >> obama lying to the people, deceiving the people... the election of obama will be a giant step backward in race relations... >> narrator: and that summer, anger only grew. >> that he was more carlton banks than suge knight... >> narrator: over health care reform... >> rammed it down america's throat... >> narrator: ...the economy, the bank bailouts, and the president himself. >> if you call half the...
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about but if president obama wins the election, you've got a real deadlock there, where the republicans are going to say it's all or nothing, and obama will say we're going to get the millionaires, raise taxes on them, so you really would have a deadlock then. the proper answer is if you vote for mitt, clear it up. >> eleanor? >> first of all, this is all election year positioning. nothing is going to actually happen before the november election. and we'll see where we stand. and even if president obama is defeated, he still has his veto pen until he is replaced in january. and the bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire by the end of the year. so if the congress wants do otherwise, he can veto it. so you can kiss the tax cuts good-bye. at least for a while! and the democrats are now redefining the middle-class as anybody who makes under -- earns under a million dollars a year. that's quite a middle-class! which shows how dependent democrats are too on morton and his friends for campaign contributions, not necessarily -- personally. >> this is reductively pyrotechnic electioneering. >> rh
about but if president obama wins the election, you've got a real deadlock there, where the republicans are going to say it's all or nothing, and obama will say we're going to get the millionaires, raise taxes on them, so you really would have a deadlock then. the proper answer is if you vote for mitt, clear it up. >> eleanor? >> first of all, this is all election year positioning. nothing is going to actually happen before the november election. and we'll see where we stand. and...
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one llapse like spain will bring the whole thing down and cost obama the election. joe biden was right on that one. >> maybe obama can campaign on hey, at least we're not as bad as europe. >> do you think this is very bad news for obama? [overlapping speakers] >> absolutely. >> recovery off track? >> the recovery -- off track even without the euro zone but that will accelerate, if europe goes away everybody thinks it's going to be, we were in real >> president sarkozy's career ends on sunday and there will be a crisis in the european union because the socialist will confront merckle on expansive policy, in the june elections the big winner will be marine le pen and the national front, because sarkozy will be gone. >> and the euro zone is in peril. >> judging by obama campaign ads already running in virginia, obama is going to aggressively frame mitt romney's job creation and a sending jobs overseas. >> tim? >> richard lugar's career will end on tuesday, he will lose his republican primary in indiana to richard murdoch, the treasurer, and murdoch i think will win the
one llapse like spain will bring the whole thing down and cost obama the election. joe biden was right on that one. >> maybe obama can campaign on hey, at least we're not as bad as europe. >> do you think this is very bad news for obama? [overlapping speakers] >> absolutely. >> recovery off track? >> the recovery -- off track even without the euro zone but that will accelerate, if europe goes away everybody thinks it's going to be, we were in real >>...